The Gilded Cage is an oil painting on canvas by the English painter Evelyn De Morgan, from 1919.

Her outstretched hand forms a gesture of yearning as she watches a group of dancers and musicians.

The principal figure among the travelling group is a woman who dances while holding her baby, suggesting that the scene also represents maternal duty.

Broken jewellery and a book lie on the floor.

A bird soars free about the dancers, which contrasts sharply to the captive bird in the gilded cage hanging near the woman's distraught older husband.